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...with front-line service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis, the swinish profiteer and his fat mistresses. He escaped Nazi concentration camps by going to the U. S. in 1932 to teach at the Art Students' League. Nazis did the best they could by burning his books, persistently referring...
...Emperor Napoleon now, he quarrelled with Czar Alexander I, he undertook to reprimand that monarch. He won the battle of Borodino but lost three hundred eighty thousand men. In October 1813 he lost at Leipsic to a Russian-Prussian-Austrian coalition. His enemies marched into Paris, the Emperor left for Elba...
...ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary Magdalene von Losch, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Dec. 27, 1904. Her father, Edward von Losch, lieutenant in a regiment of Prussian Grenadiers, was stationed there. In 1915 von Losch was killed at Kovno on the Russian Front. After the War Marlene decided to try acting, changed her name to Dietrich, enrolled in Max Reinhardt's school in Berlin. To get money she worked as an extra for UFA. Her first turn of fortune came...
...live long on the Icelandic farm of his birth. At 12 he was one of two healthy boys chosen to be educated in France at the expense of a rich nobleman. Crossing to Denmark in a sailing vessel, the youths got no farther than Copenhagen because of the Franco-Prussian War. Cared for by the bishop and clergy of that city, "Nonni" was converted to Catholicism, then skipped off with a troop of gypsies, was found by police after many an adventure. The two young Icelanders finally arrived in France in 1871, by which time "Nonni" had discovered a vocation...
...Sculptor Bartholdi suddenly chucked his art, served eight months in the Franco-Prussian War. Immediately after the armistice in 1871 he sailed for New York on the French steamship Pireire. At his first glimpse of New York harbor-so he always maintained-he immediately conceived the idea for a gigantic statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," picked Bedloe Island with its abandoned ramparts of Fort Wood as the ideal site. Ashore, he talked hard about his project to various rich citizens, went down to Long Branch, N. J. to see President Grant about...